This is a hot-fix release for v12.1.0 to address an issue reported in #7593 that pip install cupy-wheel raises an error with Pip v23.1 or later. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

This fix only applies to the cupy-wheel meta package. As there are no differences in CuPy functionalities with v12.1.0, no releases are made for CuPy's source/binary packages.

We are also considering removing cupy-wheel meta package in CuPy v13. Join the discussion in #7628 if you have any suggestions or comments.